Garcia Paine is the president of Viridis Consulting, a Pasadena-based clean energy consultancy certified as a Minority Woman-Owned and Small Business firm. Her expertise is in program design and customer engagement for energy efficiency, demand response and decarbonization efforts. Through Viridis, Garcia Paine and her team’s mission is to create innovative new ways for all people to live and work in a cleaner, greener world. She is a native Angeleno raised in the Pico-Union neighborhood and has lived in Pasadena for more than 20 years. She has served on the board of Heritage Housing Partners and as a chairwoman of two Huntington Hospital SCRUBS fundraising efforts. She received a bachelor’s in liberal studies from Cal State Northridge and a master’s in entrepreneurship and innovation from the USC.
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